Found in Laos and Vietnam at elevations of 750 to 1600 meters as a creeping, miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy rocks and vertical cliffs that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a very short, arising from the upper nodes, few flowered inflorescence

Often cited as a synonym of Eria scabrilinguis Lindl. 1858 [Eria corneri] but recently separated by Schuiteman based on the acute lip and differing side lobes.